News from August 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.1 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Aug. 12, 2020, Yousef O. Barasneh (age: 22) of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate citizens’ rights to use property free from threats and intimidation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that James R. Barger, Jr., 49, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., expressing concerns about COVID-19 in the jails...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Aug. 12, 2020, Yousef O. Barasneh (age: 22) of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate citizens’ rights to use property free from threats and intimidation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: POJOAQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation began construction on Aug. 10, 2020 on a water system that will bring clean drinking water to approximately 10,000 people and ensure a reliable water supply for residents of the Pueblos of Pojoaque, Nambé, San Ildefonso and Tesuque, as well as some residents of Santa Fe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As carjacking skyrockets in Louisville, the FBI, joined by the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms, Homeland Security Investigations, Jefferson Co. Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky State Police have set up a new task force in an effort...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fugitive also wanted on criminal charges in El Salvador was arrested Wednesday by an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Dallas Fugitive Operations Team in Irving, Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - Gulf Islands National Seashore will temporarily close the Fort Pickens Fishing Pier on Thursday, Aug. 20, to facilitate underwater sea turtle research. The study, conducted by the University of West Florida, will evaluate interactions between young adult sea turtles and in-water piers. The fishing pier will close at 9 p.m. on August 19 and will reopen by 12 p.m. on August 20.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA, Ga. - National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin today announced the selection of Carla Beasley as the new superintendent of Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, located in Macon, Georgia. Beasley previously served as the park’s acting superintendent for several months through June this year. She will begin her new assignment on September 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: New Orleans, LA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) New Orleans Task Force and Louisiana State Police (LSP), located and arrested fugitive, John Henry Bartholomew Jr. (32 years old), hiding out at a motel on Highway 182 in Morgan City, Louisiana. He had been featured on local New Orleans metro area news...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Wade J. Paulisick, Jr., 22, of Jamestown, NY, with possessing with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of acetyl fentanyl, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, five grams or more of...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) Chairman Jason E. Kearns requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon was sentenced to 54 months in prison for illegally possessing a stolen gun, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Eleven members and associates of the Lowriders, a Davenport- based street gang, have been charged in federal court in Davenport for various crimes, including violent crimes in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking, tampering with witnesses, the knowing transfer of a handgun to a juvenile...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Judge Orders Her Detained Pending Trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Texan has entered a guilty plea to coercion and enticement as well as receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management will publish a Federal Register notice tomorrow announcing the availability of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.’s (CPAI) proposed Willow Master Development Plan (MDP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, UT - Lacey Nichole Crawshaw, 33, of St. George will serve 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of fentanyl. U.S. District Judge David Nuffer imposed the sentence Wednesday in St. George. Crawshaw will serve 36-months of supervised release when she finishes her prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal criminal justice system.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority seek public input on the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project’s draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report. This joint proposed project would create an additional 130,000 acre-feet of storage space in San Luis Reservoir.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Incident Occurred in Sanford, Lee County, N.C.
